Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-05
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
delegate Caine Talks of Brigham
YOung and Of POlygamy-
Cleveland and Lamont.
A Pen Picture Of Charley Farwell,
the Illinois Senator - Talks
About John Sherman.
Special Correspondence THE DEMOCRAT


WA. -,GroN, Feb. u.
took a good look at Charley Farwell, the
new senator from Illinois, as ne sat in the SEN
ate chamber yesterday. Heis on the back row,
and though he weighs 2O0pounds he is the baby
senator of the chamber He is tall, straight
and dignifed He would measure six feet in
his stockings, and l suppose his thigh is as
large around as Mahone's waist He has one
OF the biggest heads in the senate, and this
sits firmly upon a pair of broad shoulders,
attached thereto by a strong, well shaped
neck. His face is strikingly like that of
Garfield. The forehead is high, broad and
full over the eyes. The nose is straight and in
clined to the sensitive, the cheek bones are
high. and the jaws, which l imagine to be
strong ones, are hidden by full, short, whitish
gray whiskers 1t is the face of a man of
character, and as you look at it you see that
its owner has the physique to carry his ideas
into action. The eyes OF this Illinois states
man are blue. They are honest and laugh
ing, and they carry out the idea that the soul
behind them is full of good fellowship. Sen
ator Farwell dresses in business clothes, and,
while not a sloven, there is nothing Of the
dude about him. He is a plain, common
sense fellow, full of vitality and wearing his
"a years as easily as though he had been born
a generation later. Charley Farwell is one
of the rich men of the senate. He has made
a fortune in dry goods, but while he
has been making money he has found
time for other things as well. He has been
three times elected to congress and has been
the sheriff of Cook county. He went to
Chicago forty-two years ago. and some of his
first work was surveying. The first wages
he received was in the county clerks Office
and he got the munifcent salary of 81 week.
Senator Farwell has a splendid house at Lake
Forest, His He is noted for his generosity,
and it will not be surprising if he entertains
lavishly here next year. He has a very
bright wife and two unmarried daughters.
One of these, Miss Grace, has Just been
graduated from New England college and
she will probably be introduced into Wash
ington society next winter. The other
daughter is still at school at Lake Forest
university, near Chicago, and a third
daughter, who is married, is Mrs. De Coven,
the wife of Chicago merchant prince who
is here with her father this winter
***
Mr. Cappeller, the chairman of the Ohio
owner of a newspaper published at John
Sherman's Ohio home, tells me that Sherman
has never been so strong in Ohio as he is now,
and that there is nothing in the statement
that Governor Foraker has any ambition to
have place on the presidential ticket of 1885,
Governor Foraker" says Cappeller, "dOes not
want to be again candidate for governor of
Ohio on account of the smallness of the sal
AIRY. He told me the other day that he could
make from $50, 200 to $4,000 a year at his
law practice in Cincinnati, and perhaps more
than that now that Governor Hoadly has
gone to New York. His position as governor
keeps him away from his family and his ex-
penses amount to more than his gubernatorial
s"'"'v. Fo'"'--r is a strong friend of Sher-
mans, and he VIII be one of Sherman's sup
porters at the next convention"
~
Speaking of Sherman's presidential out
look, l had a chat yesterday with Tom
Nichol, who was one of Sherman's managers
in 1894. Nichol is one of the queerest char
acters in American politics. He is uglier
than the man who stopped the clock by look
ing at it, but he is sharper than chain light
ming. He has a red mustache a lean face
and pale blue eyes, but his tongue can utter
two ideas to the second, and his wiry frame
Is packed full of logical argument He is an
Ohio man by birth, and during the Greenback
craze of some years ago he was a travelling
salesman for a pillow house. While so en-
gagged he stopped one night at Racine, Wis.
and attended a Greenback meeting there. In
the midst of utterances of financial heresies
he tried to make a speech. The Green
hackers, when they heard that he was a
hard money man, refused to let him talk, and
ne defiHntly told them that he would hire a
hall himself and would speak to the town the
next night. He did this and he had crowded
aud ence. His speech was such success that
il "a"rN 70 the ears of the Republican
ma. 81 and they employed him
% 20 through the northwest making
speeche- He organized the hard money
league uL the northwest, and has been since
then talker upon the finances of the
counr.. lie is, judge, about 40 years of
age, as We. post ed on the Bible, and is noted
for his accuracy of statement. He has a
mathematical brain, and figures stick to him
closer than bUrrs do to wool. He has been
trav cling throughout the western states, and
it was in the clerks Office of the United States
senate that / Z It him yesterday. He said:
Il want t. denoUnce the supposed effect of
personal MAJ eUIsIn as a presidential guam
tity. American politics have changed of late
years, and enthusiasm does not bring votes
The American people are doing their voting
now more by reasoning than by cheering,
and magnetism is played out. In 1884 the
Republican party went wild for it. They
chose James G. Blaine and John A. Logan as
their candidates. These were the princes of
personal magnetism and the crown princes
of enthusiasm Against them the Democrats
put up Grover Cleveland, a thick skinned
Buffalo lawyer, with not enough magnetism
in him to run the bell button of hotel
chamber, and cold-blooded old man
from Indiana.
Yet these two men beat your crown princes
OF enthusiasm. Go back a little. In 1eI6
the Democrats nominated an old man
who was trembling over the grave, which has
since come to him. They added to him the
Indiana statesman of 1884 \ ~ler of them
had personal magnetism nor any of the ele-
ments which inspire an enthusiastic follow
ing The Republicans, in opposition, nomi-
mated Hayes and Wheeler, neither of whom
had enough electricity in their souls to op-
crate the machinery of an apple parer
Take the four candidates of 1876, Democratic
anu nepuDhcttIl, anu Uuey were 50 cold thai
il you put your tongue against them in July
the frost would hold it fast. And still thesp
candidates of 1876 ran so well that the people
claimed that they were all electe l. So much
for personal magnetism in politics.
Now concluded Mr. Nichol, II am in
favor of John Sherman as the next presiden-
tial candidate, and want him nominated be-
cause he Is the only available candidate. He
is available because he can get the votes and
be elected Sherman will carry the strength